I've watched all the videos I could find and it never worked as well for me as I saw on the videos. I finally got the Dynamic file to work after importing the footage into After Effects but couldn't seem to work in Premier and After Effects at the same time. I finally made the comp an imported it into Premier, but now I cant drag it from the "Project" window down to the actual timeline so I can work with it.

Can anyone help me?

Below I have attached a small sample screen shot of the comp if that will help.

Yes I have double clicked on it and it actually opens in the project window above but I cant seem to drag it down into the actually composition to work on it? I did apply a mask to the comp in AE. Would that be a problem?

Try removing the slash in the name. Forgive me because I'm not that familiar with dynamic link, but if that is a "file" the slash may be confusing it as a "directory."

That's Adobe's naming scheme for Dynamic Linked AE comps, as well as how layered PSDs are named. What is before the slash is the composition name, and what is after it is the After Effects project name. These aren't assets in the "traditional" sense, so the forward slash has no impact on file use.

Well I can actually see the comp in the above project "monitor window" (I think thats what its called next to the main edit window). When I click and drag it I get the little "hand/fist" icon which represents that I have selected and am actually moving the clip, but next to the hand is a little circle with a slash through it similar to the little image that i found off the internet for example purposes that I have inserted below.

I have actually placed a mask in the linked comp in AE. Would that be a problem?

Try dragging the AE comp to the New Item icon at the bottom of the Project panel; is a new sequence created with the AE comp placed in it?

With the the DL'ed comp loaded into the Source Monitor (the one on the left), press either the Insert or Overlay buttons; they're located just to the right of the "jog wheel" in the monitor panel. Does the comp clip land in the seqence? If not, make sure that you have your Source and Target tracks targetted properly; that means clicking to enable the gray V/Video and A/Audio buttons at the head of the Timeline panel.

Like this:

The nature and content of your DL'ed comp has no effect on its usability in Premiere; as far as PPro is concerned, it's a flattened video clip.

What is the Media Duration of the DL'ed comp, as it appears in the Project panel?

Also--asking the obvious, but I have to check--have you saved the AE project after adding the comp? If so, try removing the AE comp from your PPro project panel, and then import it again. Also, try creating a new/second comp in your AE project, and attempt to DL that. Same result?

the media duration is "00;13;13;01". It does not read "00:13:13:01". Not sure why or if that matters. to test it I tried to drag another clip that was recorded in with the extension ".MTS" and it was able to be dragged down.

I'm beginning to wonder about the comp format. It looks odd but not sure if this matters.

to test it I tried to drag another clip that was recorded in with the extension ".MTS" and it was able to be dragged down.

Can you explain what you're referring to here? Do you mean you tried another MTS file in Premiere, or that you created a new comp in AE and used a different MTS file in that, which you then successfully used in Premiere?

Ok Colin!!!! For some reason I restarted and dropped the project on the timeline and it WORKED!!!! I did nothing different!!! OMG!!!!

Thanks so much for your hanging with me on this. Do you have an email where I can stay in contact with you with other questions if I need to ask? After all this I would like to show you what you helped me complete!!! Not sure if that's against forum rules but you can email me at "info@sonenterprises.com" and I will respond to it so your email isnt live here.

Thanks so much!!!! I again really do wish I knew what happened so I dont do it again, but I Thank God for it anyway!!!!

I have no idea my friend what happened! It just decided to work. I guess after I stopped making faces and cussing at my computer it decided to be nice to me!!! Ha! Just joking about the cussing, but I was definately making some faces!!!

With both Premiere and After Effects closed, go to the folder where your MTS files are stored. Delete all CFA, PEK, and MPGINDEX files you find there, and empty the trash. Restart Premiere and reopen your project, then wait for the yellow bar on the bottom right corner to stop flashing. When it's done, open up After Effects and let it finish indexing. Check if your files are back online now.

I did that and it seemed to work. To be honest I'm a bit nervous right now about it. If I link them up and work from the linked file and it acts up later will I lose work/time. So I rendered out the click from AE and importd it into PR. I know that's the long way around but it seems much safer right now.

Thanks so much for your help. I'm not giving up on it, but I've got to get rolling on completing the project.

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I do have one more question though that you may not know.

I'm in PR trying to change the background color in the project window from black to white. I know how to do it in AE but cant seem to find it in PR. I know I can add another white matte color as a video track but that seems kinds crazy that I have to add an extra track to my video just for the background color. Do you know how I can do this?

If I add the extra track thats just another layer that I have to keep on with and I don't think I can even hide that lyer to avoid editing it when cutting and moving.